This ended up being a lighter color than I expected. It looks like more of a mauved pink than a brownish-red. It's a good basic color, a softer mauve-pink that isn't a straightforward, straight-up “soft pink”. The color payoff is good, and the color depth means that there's just a...
I used two coats on this - but I should have made it three. You can see a few bald patches in the manicure (or possibly just thinner…it's hard to tell with this color.) Fast Track was in my second tier of choices from this collection, until I saw...
Say it with me: ROYAL BLUE HOLOGRAPHIC POLISH!!! I was (and still am) head over heels in love with China Glaze's OMG collection, and their 2NITE is a lovely periwinkle-violet; but neither that collection nor any subsequent holographic collection - by any vendor, not just China Glaze - had a...
One of the things I picked up at the Stila Friends and Family sale. I’d kind of wanted to try their longwear lip colors, but not at $22 apiece! This let me try a liquid lip color and their regular lip color at a good price, plus the F&...
Rich turquoise-blue shimmer with a good color payoff. Most of the spring releases from Fyrinnae were brighter: Bitey Tyrannosaur, Blogger Beauty, Parental Advisory…all brighter, more vivid shades. This color reminds me a little bit of Aqua Nightmare, but with more intensity.
I initially wasn't too sure if I wanted this color or not. (Another brown? But I've got lots of browns!!) Not too many that are exactly this shade with this shimmer, though.
The photos on the vendor site make it look like this color could be more of a metallic gold. I found it to be more of a blackened gold - similar to Aromaleigh's Drama Topaz. I can use this as a liner, or as a dark inner-accent shade; but didn't...
This color reminds me slightly of one of the frankenshadows I made…but this one has more color payoff. The color is almost the same intensity wet or dry, but the pink pearl finish barely shows up when applied dry. This is a turquoise-aqua shade, but I think there's enough...
So last week I was flipping through the channels and caught the start of "Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar." For days, any song I tried to listen to would mentally be replaced by this. Rather than keep this evanescent joy to myself, I am sharing it with...
When I first saw this color I thought I wouldn't like it at all. It's one of the glosses - semisheer, truly a gloss - and I don't like those nearly as much as I like the full-color Pretty Amazing lip cremes. I was pretty sure that this would be...
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